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A month long practice routine with a lesson a day covering some of the most fundamental principles of Jazz Guitar playing including chords, scales, triads, arpeggios, ear training, repertoire and the sight reading.

Gaining Tone Security When Improvising

A common problem I notice amongst my students is that whilst they are able to understand the chord progressions and relating scales, when they begin to improvise lead lines over the top they are not tied down to the changes and often end up losing their way or running into a dead end.

Using Chord and Scale Shapes to Improvise

Jazz Blues Licks

Learning to solo over Jazz Blues Progressions can give extremely valuable insight into how to construct solos and harmonise correctly. The 12 bar form is relatively simple to master and because nearly all aspects of modern popular music are in some way touched by the blues it should sound suitably familiar.

Useful Bebop Solos and Phrases

When studying Jazz guitar it is very easy to get bogged down by learning scales and to not spend enough time really working on the phrasing and traditional vocabulary that really makes Jazz improvising sound well- jazzy!